Man kills himself in Russian roulette game: pranks and games gone wrong

The 21-year-old who killed himself playing Russian roulette is not the first
to suffer an unfortunate end during a "game".

The gunman, a 33 year-old Chechen man, insists he was sure that he had emptied the pistol's chamber

1:17PM BST 12 Jul 2011

In March last year, a Russian wedding ended in tragedy. A home video of the wedding in Astrakhan, southern Russia, shows a grinning friend of the groom unexpectedly pulling a pistol from his waistband, putting it to his temple and squeezing the trigger. The gun emits only a clicking sound and the smiling gunman asks who else wants to try his luck.

Another guest is shown taking up the offer, but this time the trick goes wrong. The gun released a rubbel bullet into his skull at point-blank range.

The Australian man, in his 20s, fell from a Brisbane balcony railing while a friend photographed him.

And in the US, Tyler Cross, a student of the University of Texas pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in 2006 and fell from the fifth floor of an apartment building during a fraternity "hazing". He was intoxicated and had been repeatedly beaten with a bamboo stick before he died. His parents received a $16.2 million settlement from the fraternity.